More UFO Love For China, This Time In Zhejiang Province
People's Daily Online is reporting that a UFO was visible "for at least three hours" above Haiyan County of Zhejiang Province August 31.
Among the witnesses were two local Haiyan television station reporters. When a second object appeared above the first and began moving toward Haining City, the reporters followed it by car, taking "relatively clear pictures" of it from their position in the object's flight path.
(Frustratingly, none of these pictures accompanied the People's Daily article.)
Described as flying "not at a high altitude" and being "much larger and brighter than stars around it," the object reportedly changed shape from round to rectangular. The photos said to have been taken by the reporters show "a round object that had shiny blue lights, and several other flickering objects" around it.
The People's Daily report appeared less than two weeks after its August 23 account of Chinese Academy of Sciences astronomer Wang Sichao's announcement that UFOs have been observed by Chinese astronomers in the Earth's atmosphere.
As with the Sichao story, it's significant that the official news agency of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, People's Daily, is: a.) covering the Zheijang Province sighting at all, and b.) doing so without the slightest indication of dismissal or disapproval.
It's also of interest that neither People's Daily story references theories floated recently in the West that Chinese UFOs are either misidentified military missiles or misidentified private airplanes. Nor do they address the implied credulity of denizens of the second largest economy in the world.
Previous China UFO coverage at Technorati
- Chinese astronomer claims some UFOs are of extraterrestrial origin (August 27, 2010) - Respected member of Chinese scientific community makes no bones about the existence of UFOs
- Time magazine debunks China UFOs, ignores obvious questions (August 23, 2010) - Time explains away China UFOs as private airplanes flying without flight plans
- China's second mass UFO sighting in two weeks (July 21, 2010) - Lantern-like objects hover over Chongqing's Shaping Park
- UFOs cause flight delays in China (July 12, 2010) - Xiaoshan Airport in Zeijiang Province shut down for several hours
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